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PATRIOTS OIT MiERICA 
Extracts from the Constitution 



and By-laws etc. 




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New York State Society incorporated 18th March, 
1896. 

New Jersey Society formed April 28th, 1896. 

Connecticut Society formed May 9th, 1896. 

Representatives of these three State Societies met 
in the Governor's Room, at the City Hall, in the City 
of New York, on the 13th day of May, 1896, and 
formed a General Court of the Order. 



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SHOWING BRIEFLY THE OBJECTS AND ORGANIZATION OF 

THE ORDER, THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP, 

AND THE METHOD OF ITS ATTAINMENT. 

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Recognizing Almighty God as guiding our ances- 
tors to this land, to establish of their descendants, 
not a Colony, but an independent sovereign Christian 
nation, destined by Him to occupy a commanding 
place among the nations of the earth, and to protect 
and defend liberty in all the Western Hemisphere, 
and recognizing that the foundations of the nation 
were laid in the perils and hardships of the first fifty 
years by our ancestor settlers of that period, rather 
than in the years that followed, and recognizing that 
necessary to that end for which our ancestors came 
was a patriot progeny in the time of the Revolution- 
ary struggle, out of which our country came to be 
independent and our nation came into being, for 
ourselves and those who may associate with us, we 
have formed an Association founded on descent from 
such ancestry and through their patriot descendants, 
and to that end, adopt the following Constitution: 



Art. II. Section 1. The object or purpose of the 
Order is : 

1. To bring together and associate congenial 
men, whose ancestors struggled together for 
life and liberty, home and happiness, in this 
land, when it was a new and unknown country, 
and whose line of descent from them, comes 
through patriots who sustained the Colonies 
in the struggle for independence in the Revolu- 
tionary War. 

2. To teach reverend regard for the names and 
history, character and perseverance, deeds 
and heroism, of the founders of this Country 
and their patriot descendants. 

3. To teach that the purpose of the founders 
could have had no lasting result but for their 
patriot sons. 

4. To inculcate patriotism in the associates and 
their descendants. 

6. To discover, collect and preserve records, 
documents, manuscripts, monuments and his- 
tory relating to the genealogy and the history 
of the first Colonists and their ancestors and 
their descendants. 

a. To commemorate and celebrate events in the 
History of the Colonies and the Republic. 

7. Other historical and patriotic objects and 
purposes. 



Art. III. Section 1. The Order consists of : 

1. A General Court to be known as the General 
Court of the Order of the Founders and Patriots 
of America. 

2. A society of the Order in each State, District 
or Territory of the United States, and in such 
Foreign State or Country in which it may be 
planted, each of which, prefixed with the name 
of the political division in which located, is to 

be known as The Society of the Order of 

the Founders and Patriots of America. 

3. Such other societies of the Order as may be 
formed by the division of one society of the 
Order into two or more societies of the Order 
as authorized bj?- this Constitution. 

Art. VII. Section 7. The General Court shall 
have and exercise the following powers : 

SuBD. 4. Upon application of any nine Associates 
of the Order, residing in any State, District, 
Territory or Country, by Charter to constitute 
them, and those whom they may admit, pur- 
suant to the laws of the Order, into a society 
of the Order for the political division in which 
they reside and give to such society a name, 
and fix a time and place for the first meeting. 

Art. X. Section 3. Any society of the Order may 
organize chapters of its members to consist of not 
less than nine associates. 



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THE GENEKAT, COURT. 

Art. VII. Section 1. The General Court shall con- 
sist of the Founders of the Order, also all actual and 
all past Governors - General, Deputy Governors- 
General, Chaplains - General, Secretaries - General, 
Treasurers-General, Attorneys-General, Registrars- 
General and Historians-General of the General Court ; 
also all actual Councilors-General during their respec- 
tive terms of office ; also all actual Governors, Deputy 
Governors, Chaplains, Secretaries, Treasurers, States 
Attorneys, Registrars and Historians of the several 
societies of the Order during their respective terms 
of office, provided, however, that no person shall be 
a member of the General Court unless he shall be at 
the time a member in good standing in one of the 
societies of the Order. 

Section 2. The Officers of the General Court shall 
be a Governor-General, a Deputy Governor-General, 
a Chaplain-General, a Secretary-General, a Treasurer- 
General, an Attorney-General, a Registrar-General, 
and a Historian-General each to hold office for one 
year, and until his successor is elected and installed, 
and nine Councilors-General, and each Councilor- 
General shall hold office for three years. 

Section 3. The officers of each society of the Order 
shall be a Governor, a Deputy-Governor, a Chaplain, 
a Treasurer, a Secretary, a States Attorney, a Regis- 
trar, an Historian, each to hold office for one year 
and until his successor is elected and installed, and 
nine Councilors, and each Councilor shall hold office 



for three years, and until his successor has been 
elected and installed, provided, however, that the 
society shall divide the Councilors first chosen into 
three classes, one class to serve one year, one two 
years, and one three years, and until their successors 
are elected and installed. 

The Registrar shall have custody of all applica- 
tions for membership and shall issue the same as 
required and provided by the Council. He shall 
receive the duplicate applications for membership, 
and examine, approve or disapprove thereof, and 
certify them in order and report thereon, either to the 
society or to its Council, or to a committee of the 
society, or otherwise, as by by-law the society may 
kave required. Before and after such report he may 
require of the applicant for membership correction 
•f his papers or further proofs. 



Art. IV. Section 3. Any man of the age of twenty- 
one years, of good moral character and reputation, 
and a citizen of the United States, is eligible to mem- 
bership in the Order, who is lineally descended in the 
male line of either parent from an ancestor who 
settled in any of the Colonies, now included in the 
United States of America, from the settlement of 
Jam.estown, May 13th, 1607, to May 13th, 1657, inclu- 
sive, and whose intermediate ancestors at the call of 
the Colonists, adhered as patriots to their cause 
through the Revolutionary War that followed, and 
which ended with the independence of the Colonies. 

Section 5. No person shall be admitted an Associ- 
ate of the Order, without previous investigation into, 
and ascertainment of his qualifications for member- 
ship, and each society may by by-law provide for the 
manner of such investigation and ascertainment, and 
of the mode of election of the members of such 
society. 

By-Laws. Section 9. (a) Every applicant for mem- 
bership, must apply in writing and m duplicate. His 
application must state his age, residence, occupation, 
place of business, and his post office address, and 
such other matters and things and information as the 
Council-General shall direct, and must be recom- 
mended by two associates, and the application must 
be presented to the Registrar of a society of the 
Order, and shall be accompanied by such historical 
information concerning his Colonial Ancestor and 
those in the line of descent to himself, as the society 
shall request, and the application shall be examined. 



as the By-laws of the particular society shall require, 
to ascertain the qualifications of the applicant, and 
when ascertained, shall be reported, approved or 
disapproved, either to the society or to its Council, 
or to one of them, for election, as the By-laws of 
such society shall provide. (J?) Such election must 
be by ballot, and one negative ballot in every five 
cast, or five negative ballots in all shall reject the 
applicant, and he cannot again apply for member- 
ship within one year thereafter, nor to any other 
society than that in which rejected, without its 
consent. 



*Blank forms for applications for membership may 
be procured from the Registrar of any State Society 
or from the Registrar-General directly or through 
any member of the Order. Application should be 
made in the State where applicant resides, if there be 
a Society there, otherwise to any State Society. 



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By-Laws, Section 12. The initiation fee shall be 
five dollars, and the annual dues to be paid by all but 
life and honorary associates, shall be five dollars, to 
be paid on notice of election to membership, and 
thereafter shall be due and payable on the 19th day 
of April in each year, provided that the dues paid by 
an associate upon his election to membership after 
January 1st, and before April 19th, in any year, 
shall be in full of annual dues to April 19th of the 
year following. 

Art. IX. Section 2. Any Associate may commute 
his annual dues by paying at any time a sum equal 
to ten years' annual dues, and shall become a life 
member. All life members are exempt from pay- 
ment of dues. 

Art. IV. Section 7. Payment of the initiation fee 
and one year's dues and signing the Constitution, 
either in person or by proxy, all within three months 
after notice of election to membership, shall be 
necessary to consummate such membership, and 
omission so to do, shall, ipso facto, make void the 
election of the member. 

Section 8. An Associate of one society of the 
Order may be transferred to another society of the 
Order upon his written request, accompanied by a 
letter of recommendation and dimission from the 
society from which transferred, and under such 
regulations as the society to which he seeks transfer 
may prescribe. 



In consonance with the purpose of the 
Order of the Founders and Patriots of 
America to further in every way historical 
and genealogical research, the Council-Gen- 
eral contemplates making suitable arrange- 
ments with the best professional genealog- 
ists in the various localities of the early 
settlements, so that their assistance may be 
procured by our members, and those seeking 
membership, at a moderate cost, and the 
greatest possible light thrown upon the sub- 
ject of their investigations. 

Further information as to this feature may 
be had by addressing the Registrar-General, 
or the Registrar of a State Society. 



®tticcxs and (^onncxXoxs of 

GOVERNOR-GENERAL. 

Col. Frederick Dent Grant, New York City. 

DEPUTY governor-general. 

Edward Pliny Chapin, Springfield, Mass. 

secretary-general. 
John Quincy Adams, 101 W. 89th St., New York City. 

treasurer-general. 
Jonathan Flynt Morris, Hartford, Conn. 

attorney-general. 
Morris Patterson Ferris, 38 Park Row, N. Y. City. 

registrar-general. 
Howard Sumner Robbins, Hotel Endicott, N. Y. City. 

historian-general. 
Prof. Thomas Egleston, New York City. 

chaplain-general. 
Rev. Joseph Fulford Folsom, Kearny, N. J. 

Edward N. G. Greene, New York City. 

Charles Broadwell Corwin, Plainfield, N. J . 

Edward Clinton Lee, Philadelphia, Peun. 

Henry Hall, New York City. 

Col. Lewis Cheesman Hopkins, New York City. 

Thomas Williams Bicknell, Providence, R. L 

Edward Payson Cone, New York City. 

Major Francis Lowell Hills, Wilmington, Del. 

Hon. James Jerome Belden, Syracuse, N Y. 



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GOVERNOR. 

Col. Ralph Earl Prime, Yonkers, 

DEPUTY-GOVERNOR. 

Hon. William Winton Goodrich, Brooklyn. 

TREASURER. 

Matthew Hinman, 359 Broadway, New York City. 

SECRETARY. 

Henry Lincoln Morris, 253 Broadway, N. Y. City. 

STATES-ATTORNEY. 

Samuel Victor Constant, New York City. 

registrar. 
Edward Hagaman Hall, 14 Lafayette PL, N. Y. City. 

HISTORIAN. 

George Rogers Howell, Albany. 



^ounMoxz: 

Gen. Ferdinand Pinney Earle, 
George Clinton Batcheller, 
Charles Albert Hoyt, 
Clarence Lyman Co] lins, 
Maj. Robert Emmet Hopkins, 
Walter Steuben Carter, 
John Winslow, 
Thomas Hubbard Stryker, 
Rear-Admiral Richard W. Meade, 



New York City. 

New York City. 

Brooklyn. 

New York Ciiy. 

Tarrytown. 

Brooklyn. 

Brooklyn. 

Rome. 

Philadelphia. 



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governor. 
William Armstrong Halsey, 

deputy-governor. 
George Long Hutchings, 

chaplain. 
Elmer Severance Forbes, 

treasurer. 
Charles Broadwell Corwin, 

secretary. 
Washington Irving Lincoln Adams, 

states- attorney 
Frederic Allen Angell, 

registrar. 
George Washington Case, 

historian. 
Rev. Joseph Fulford Folsom, 

(^oxxnciloxB, 

George Everett Halsey, 
James Hervey Lindslev, 
Henry Langdon Potter. 
Franklin Whetstone Hopkins, 
Jesse Platt, 
Julius Merrille Foote, 
William Raymond Weeks, 
Frederick Halsey Beach, 
Henry Randall Waite. 



Newark. 

East Orange. 

Jersey City. 

Plainfield. 

Montclair. 

Montclair. 

Jersey City. 

Kearny. 



Newark. 

East Orange. 

Linden. 

Alpine. 

Montclair. 

Newark. 

Newark. 

Dover. 

East Orange. 



(Dfticjets and (S/onnciloxs crt 

GOVERNOR. 

Col. Charles Alexander Jewell, Hartford. 

DEPUTY-GOVERNOR. 

NoRRis Galpin Osborn, New Have«. 

SECRETARY-TREASURER. 

Charles Mather Glazier, Hartford. 

REGISTRAR. 

Edward Everett Sill, New Haven. 

HISTORI.AN. 

Thomas Jefferson Boardman, Hartford. 

CHAPLAIN. 

Rev. John Gayloru D.wenport, D.D., Waterbury. 

(^onnciloxs : 

John Emery Morris, Hartford. 

James Emery Brooks, Hartford. 

Major Frank William Mix, Stamford. 

Jonathan Flynt Morris, Hartford. 

William Francis Joseph Boardman, Hartford. 

Richard Sill Gkiswold, Old Lyme. 

Charles Abner Pelton, Middletown. 

Francis Durando Nichols, Black Rock. 

William Charles Russell, Hartford. 



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GOVERNOR. 

Capt. Samuel Emlen Meigs, Philadelphia. 

DEPUTY-GOVERNOR. 

Christopher Columbus Wolcott, Philadelphia. 

TREASURER. 

Charles Wurts Sparhawk, 400 Chestnut St., Phila. 

SECRETARY. 

Edward Lang Perkins, 110 So. 4th St., Philadelphia. 

STATES- ATTORNEY. 

Frederick Augustus R. Baldwin, AUentown. 

REGISTRAR. 

Charles Field Haseltine. 1720 Chestnut St., Phila. 

HISTORIAN. 

Prof. James W. Moore, Easton. 

^oxxnciXoxs : 

Rear- Admiral Richard W. Meade, Philadelphia. 

Capt. Samuel Emlen Meigs, Philadelphia. 

Edward Lang Perkins, Philadelphia. 

Charles Wurts Sparhawk, Philadelphia. 

William Howard Hart, Philadelphia. 

RoLLiN Henry Wilbur, So. Bethlehem. 

Charles Field Haseltine, Philadelphia. 

Christopher Columbus Wolcott, Philadelphia. 

Frederick Rogers Meigs, Philadelphia. 



